Book Title: Dancing on the Glass Ceiling - Tap into your true strengths, Activate your vision and Get what you really want out of your career
Author: Candy Deemer and Nancy Fredricks
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Feminine Leaderhip at wor
Some extracts:
feminine based leadership:

be proactive
build relationships upward
build a network
find the solution yourself

powerful goal setting…

move toward [...]

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Book Title: Nice Girls don’t get the corner Office - 101 unconscious mistakes women make that sabotage their careers
Author: Lois P. Frankel
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
what’s a girl to do?

give yourself permission to move from girlhood to womanhood
visualise yourself as you want to be
talk back to the fearful voice inside your head
Surround [...]

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Book Title: 168 Feng Shui Ways to Energise your Life
Author: Lillian Too
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Library
My Comments: My first reading on Feng Shui… very interesting take on objects and surroundings and how they affect the chi (energy) around us.
Some extracts:
Killing cycle of the elements:

wood kills earth
earth kills water
water kills fire
fire kills metal
metal kills wood

hostile images bring [...]

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Book Title: The 4-hour workweek- Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Contents page:

First and Foremost
Step 1: D is for Definition
Step 2: E is for Elimination
Step 3: A is for Automation
Step 4: L is for Liberation

Some quotations:
Whenever you find yourself on the side on the amjority, [...]

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Book Title: The Art of War for women - Sun Tzu’s ancient strategies and wisdom for winning at work
Author: Ching-Ning Chu
Year written/published:
Book Source: Google Books, Library
My Comments: I liked this book… short and to-the-point! Very applicable!
Contents page:

Ji (Planning): The elements of Strategy
Doing Battle: Speedy Victory
Strategy: Know thyself and Others
Disposition: Win First, Then Fight
Momentum: Using timing [...]

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Book Title: Awaken the Giant WIthin: How to take immediate control of your mental, emotional, physical and financial destiny
Author: Anthony Robbins
Year written/published: 1991
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some quotations:
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live
 ~Boris Pasternak
I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
~Thomas Edison 
We are what and [...]

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How should we tackle sentences with the following structure: “If X, then Y”
This simple logic statement can be seen as 2 parts:

X is the hypothesis/premise/evidence
Y is the conclusion

At any time, 4 situations can happen:

X is true - If X is true, then Y is true
Y is true - If Y is true, we know nothing [...]

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Book Title: Creative Utopia - 12 ways to realise total creativity
Author: Theo Stephan Williams
Year written/published: 2002
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Contents page:

Setting Goals for Success
Keeping a Journal
Becoming wireless in a wireful society
Feng Shui
Making you own Mandala
Thinking out of the Proverbial Box
Seeing COlour differently
Putting the storm into Brainstorm
Fateful Encounters
Meditation
Intuitive Thinking as a Creative Pathway
Playing the Instruments

Some extracts:
Fundamental [...]

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Book Title: Magic Ladder to Success
Author: Napolean Hill
Year written/published:
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: A compiled
Contents page:

The master mind
a definite chief aim
self-confidence
habit of saving
initiative and leadership
imagination
enthusiasm
self-control
habit of doing more than paid for
pleasing personality
accurate thinking
concentration
cooperation
profiting by failure
tolerance
practising the Golden Rule
habit of health

Some extracts:
Imagination
Years before it became a reality, the alte John Wannamaker saw, in his own imaginsation, [...]

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Book Title: How to have a Beautiful Mind
Author: Edward de Bono
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
My Comments: A truly beautiful mind is one with different perpectives, view points, the one who can take alternatives and opinions that are much different from my own. I have always liked De Bono’s books… and this is definitely one [...]

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Book Title: Self Leadership and the 101 Minute Manager
Authors: Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler, Laurence Hawkins
Year written/published: 2005
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: How do you steer yourself
Some extracts:
Points of power

Knowledge Power
Position power
task power
relationship
personal power

Tricks of leadership:

Challenge assumed constraints
Celebrate your points of power
Collaborate for Success

Perhaps your greatest weakness is not realizing your own power
Ask yourself 2 questions [...]

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Randy Pausch’s 2 amazing lectures…
Time Management

Last Lecture: Achieving your Childhood Dreams

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I’m in love with this little podast from the QDT network - Grammar Girl by Mignon Fogarty. SO who’s she in real life?

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Book Title: How to enjoy life and your job
Author: Dale Carnegie
Year written/published: 1984
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: A compilation of Dale Carnegie’s books on How to win friends and influence people and How to stop worrying and start living
My Comments: I have always taken Dale Carnegie as relationship/diplomacy guru when dealing with people… another revision [...]

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SET Puzzle is an awesome brain teaser game. According the to NYtimes, the instructions go something like this:
A ‘Set’ is 3 cards in which each individual feature is either all the SAME on each card… OR all DIFFERENT on each card. That is to say, any feature in the ‘Set’ of three cards is either [...]

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I must be one of the slowest to discover this… but i just love Wii… especially Wii Fit!

picture credit

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How to choose a good password with high password strength? A good password is hard to guess and yet easy to remember!

at least 6 characters long
mix of lower and upper cases, numbers and punctuation marks

how to create one…

think of a phrase and use the first alphabet
don’t use names and address and Identity numbers

some links on [...]

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Got used broken crayons that you wanna throw away? Mail them to Crazy Crayons and get a free crayon!
Hand Crafted Fun Multi Colored Crayons!
Each Crayon is a Work of Art - No Two Are Alike!
Made From the National Crayon Recycle Program.
100’s of Shapes and Themes.
Earth Conscious Packaging.
Only Certified Non-Toxic Crayons Used.
Colors Like a Crayon - [...]

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Book Title: Ready for Anything – 52 Productivity Principles for Work and life
Author: David Allen
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
Some of the principles…
1. leaning up create new directions
2. You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you’re not doing
3. Knowing your commitments creates better choices
4. Getting to [...]

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Book Title: The Hig-Tech Personal Efficiency Program
Author: Kerry Gleeson
Year written/published:1998
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Organising your electronic resources to maximise your time and efficiency
Some extracts:
Paper control points at work area:
1. Tray system – In, Out, Reading, Pending
2. Reference files
3. Archive files
4. Woking files
5. Your work
6. Recycling/dust bin
Working files usually contain 6 types of information:
1. Fingertip [...]

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